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Logicalis is an international multi-skilled solution provider providing digital enablement services to help customers harness digital technology and innovative services to deliver powerful business outcomes.
Logicalis’ customers span industries and geographical regions; and its focus is to engage in the dynamics of its customers’ vertical markets; including financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, and apply the skills of Logicalis’ 4,500 employees in modernizing key digital pillars; data centre and cloud services, security and network infrastructure, workspace communications and collaboration, data and information strategies, and IT operation modernization.
Logicalis is the advocates for its customers for some of the world’s leading technology companies including Cisco, HPE, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, and ServiceNow.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $1.5 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa. It is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with revenues of over $4 billion.
The Logicalis History
Headquartered in the UK, Logicalis Group’s origins go back to 1997 when Datatec acquired Logical Networks plc, a UK based networking integrator (a company that had been established since 1988). From 1997 to 2000, Datatec embarked on a globalization strategy, acquiring more than 20 IT integration and services companies across Europe, North and South America and Australasia.
In 2001, Logicalis Group, which is 100% owned by Datatec, became the formal statutory holding company of the Logicalis operating companies.
In 2003, Logicalis received an unsolicited offer from IBM for the Group's Australian and New Zealand businesses. The disposal was concluded in March 2004. Since then, Logicalis has continued to acquire companies throughout Europe, North and South America, and the Asia Pacific, focusing on IT integration solutions and network and enterprise systems.
Logicalis Group currently has over 4,000 employees worldwide providing services and solutions to almost 6,000 corporate and public sector customers.
CEO, Mark Rogers’ Take on the Company Vision:
“Our vision is simple – to make technology an asset for businesses, not a problem.
We believe in making our complex, fast-changing world a simpler, more inspiring place to live, work and grow. We see ourselves as the ‘architects of change’ and, like all good architects, we design a wide variety of projects.”
Solutions and Services
Networking
To compete and prosper in today’s marketplace every organization has to empower their people to collaborate more effectively. To achieve this you will need to provide instant and secure access to corporate networks, extend virtualization, and leverage cloud computing. These are not options - these are commercial imperatives.
Today, your wired and wireless enterprise networks need to be intelligent. Fortunately, advances in network technology offer an evolutionary path for forward-thinking IT departments to integrate intelligence into their network infrastructure. As a result, they will gain a technological and competitive lead within their sector.
Your Networking Solutions
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Greet the Chief
Mark Rogers, Chief Executive Officer: Mark Rogers joined Logicalis in 2003 as Finance Director for Logicalis UK, and in 2004 he became Chief Financial Officer, European Operations. Since March 2007, he has taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer for Logicalis Group and in March 2014, Mark was appointed President and COO of Logicalis Group. Mark became CEO for Logicalis Group with effect from 1st March 2015.
Mark has extensive experience in the technology and service sectors both in the UK and internationally. He spent 20 years at Racal Electronics/Thales of which 13 years were at Finance Director Level within divisions providing Managed Network Services, Telecoms, and Survey & Positioning Services. Whilst at Thales he was also Chairman of Citylink Telecommunications, a joint venture company which had secured a £1.2 billion, 20 year PFI contract with London Underground. Also, he has significant M&A experience including the sale of Racal Telecom to Global Crossing for £1 billion as well as experience in the acquisition and integration of smaller businesses.
He started his finance career with Revlon where he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant.